Mary Anna Batchelder

Mary Anna Batchelder (1827-1875) was raised on a family farm in North Reading close to the Andover town line, and about a mile from the “old Gray place” where her grandmother Anna Jenkins had been born. She attended Abbott Academy from 1844-1846, beginning when she was about seventeen, and for some of this time boarded with the Blanchard family at 97 Main Street. Elizabeth (Jenkins) Blanchard was her grandmother’s sister.